Posts Tagged ‘Free School Meals’

Free school meals for all five, six and seven year-olds is all very well, but how will the new policy work for children at primary schools that don't have a kitchen or use outside caterers? Only four ...
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How quickly the politicians forget. It seems like only yesterday that the Lib Dems, along with their coalition partners, were pointing out that the money has run out. Indeed, it is actually even worse...
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This afternoon Nick Clegg will stand up in front of the Lib Dem conference and say: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, ...
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Free schools and academies are going to be allowed to give priority to pupils from the poorest backgrounds when allocating places. Finally, the lie that free schools are selective is being turned on i...
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Last week I argued that it was wrong for Labour activists to see Free School Meals as the new frontier of the welfare state. Alex Smith at LabourList has had a go at rebutting my arguments. There's a...
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